This packet contains the materials necessary for presentation of the second of ten modules that comprise a portion of the National Training and Development Service Urban Management Curriculum Development Project. This module focuses on issue papers which are first phase studies to be used as foundations for more extensive policy and program analyses. The packet contains an instructor's manual which presents module discussion questions and prototypical responses, a student/participant manual which includes background information on issue papers, and three case studies which form the core of the module. (Author/MK)

Sponsor: Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC. Office of Policy Development and Research.; National Training and Development Service for State and Local Government, Washington, DC.